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- The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
- You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.
- Maxwell Maltz
- To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
- The Best of the Best (motion picture)
- The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.
- Sir Hugh Walpole
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill
- He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
- Unknown
- The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.
- Oscar Arias
- To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
- Francios de La Rochefoucauld
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